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“When we started we were called “Super-Glide Skating” (2000) the term “Synthetic Ice” was not used yet. When the search engine Google was developed they put companies into groups by terms that described the business. The term “Synthetic ice” was chosen to group all companies that offered a product to skate on that was not ice. I did not agree with this because it is not “ice” but the name continued. We changed our name to “Global Synthetic Ice” to fit this category in 2006. Now we have found many products sold are just basic plastic not even close to Super-Glide and we want customers to know this fact.” – Perry Boskus, President Global Synthetic Ice

It’s a high-tech plastic that you can skate on. Super-Glide® is a synthetic ice skating surface composed of a proprietary blend of polymers that permit a skate blade to glide as smoothly as on real ice. Correct density is very important, too hard and the blade slips out, too soft and the surface is very slow, Super-Glide is just right.

Super-Glide® uses our Patented assembly method which makes the surface move as one. Expansion and contraction used to be a problem, not any more. The surface is engineered to withstand forces over 200,000 pounds, allowing any size surface to be built inside or outside in extreme temperatures. The system also has tabs on the sides of the panels that eliminate vertical movement. This is the most advanced system to date.

Pressure washing restores the surface to new condition with slight scraches that do not affect the skater. A leaf blower can clean away shavings. Heavily polluted rinks can be cleaned with a non-bleach cleaners (Simple Green) and then rinsed with water.